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This section will introduce you to the Components tab in Kiuwan Insights. 

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Components Inventory

If you are a developer, you most probably will access to build systems where external components are “identified”.

But, are those 3rd party components part of a “controlled” inventory? Most probably, don’t.

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Kiuwan Insight analyzes your application software, discovering all external dependencies, and builds a Components Inventory that lets you track of any external piece of code that could be part of your application.

 

Supported languages and resources

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Kiuwan Insights uses the following resources to extract information on 3rd party dependencies.

Supported languages

Supported repositories

Supported build systems

Java

  • Maven
  • Gradle
  •  Ant
  • Maven
  • Gradle

Javascript

  • Npm
  • Bower
  • Npm
  • Bower
  • Yarn

.Net

  • Nuget
  • Nuget

Python

  • PyPI
  • GitHub
  • PyPI
  • Requirements (txt file with declared deps)

Swift

  • Cocoapods
  • GitHub
  • Podspec
  • Package

Php

  • Packagist
  • Composer

 

From these sources, Kiuwan Insight builds the Components Inventory of your application.

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Components Inventory is accessible trough Insights >> Components tab.

 

Insights >> Components

Components Inventory

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The Components Inventory section shows the following information

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  1. Overall Information on Components – aggregated information on number and type of components
  2. List of Components – detailed listing of components
  3. Component detail – detailed information on selected component

 

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Overall Information on Components

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  • Number of components by language
  • Number of components by Security Risk level (High, Medium, Low and None)
  • Alerts :
    • Components with High-Security Risk
    • Components being used with different versions that might be cause conflicts
    • Etc.

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List of Components

Kiuwan Insights provides a full

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list of all those components being used by your application.

For every 3rd party component, you will have access to detailed component information such as:

NameDescription

Component name and description

 

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Version

The version(s)

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in use
FilenameThe physical container

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Security risk

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titleSecurity Risk

A component’s Security Risk is based on CVSS v2 Base Scores (Severities) of its vulnerabilities:

  • If the selected component has more than one vulnerability, Kiuwan will label the component with the highest severity value of all the vulnerabilities of the component.
  • If the selected component has only one vulnerability, the Severity of that vulnerability will be the Security Risk of the component.

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Obsolescence risk

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titleObsolescence Risk
(.jar, .dll, .js, etc)

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LanguageThe programming language it is written in.
Obsolescence risk
A component’s Obsolescence Risk is a measure of the risk level relative to:

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    • the antiquity of your version respect to the latest version, and
    • how active is the component

    Both values are combined in the Obsolescence Risk to provide a value of the risk associated

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    with using outdated or “dead” components.

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    Please visit Obsolescence Risk for further information

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    License risk

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    A component’s License Risk is a measure of the risk level relative to the legal implications of used components’ licenses.

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    visit Insights Licenses for further information

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    Security risk

    A component’s Security Risk is based on CVSS v2 Base Scores (Severities) of its vulnerabilities:

    • If the selected component has more than one vulnerability, Kiuwan will label the component with the highest severity value of all the vulnerabilities of the component.
    • If the selected component has only one vulnerability, the Severity of that vulnerability will be the Security Risk of the component.


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    Component details

    By clicking on a component, you will have access to the following information:

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    • The description of the component

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    • The license of the component
    • Found vulnerabilities of the selected component:
      • CVE identifier, and link to NIST National Vulnerability Database desc page
      • CWE type, and link to MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration desc page
      • Vulnerability description
      • Severity (more on this at Security Risk )

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    Duplicated components

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    With Kiuwan Insights you can identify different versions of the same component used by your application. 

     

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    The below example shows that the analyzed application is incorporating two different

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    versions of ZKoss common library: 8.0.1 and 6.0.0

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    Most probably, this component duplication is not intended, and it’s something that would produce maintainability headaches when upgrading to a newer version of the library.